Picking Fruit
There are certain dangers in preaching New Year’s sermons. For one, we often come out of the holiday season feeling tired, sick, and conscious of our credit card bills. Hence there is the risk that the invariable call to “resolutions”—will seem like yet another burden piled on to weary people with no help to lift the load (Matt 23:4–5). It’s time for a change.
What if we shifted the focus this year from mere “resolutions” (on dieting, exercise, time management) to what Scripture calls the fruit of the Spirit?